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Virtual restaurants are a fairly new concept in the grand scheme of things, so restaurateurs are still figuring out exactly how to make them as great as possible. How do you maintain relationships with customers without ever talking to them? How do you promote your business online? It's all very exciting, but also very challenging.

Virtual restaurants have no brick-and-mortar location and only serve food through delivery or takeout orders. Virtual restaurants increase restaurant revenue - while leveraging underutilized kitchen space - by tapping into the massive customer base that food-delivery platforms have built up. Opposed to ghost kitchens, you can run a virtual restaurant out of your existing brick and mortar store!

Nobody is entirely sure how delivery is going to progress after the pandemic passes, whenever that may be. We can make some good guesses, which we have in other blog posts, but it's impossible to be sure until we make it there. At the very least, it will remain as popular as it was before this all began, but likely, it will be even more so (although not as popular as it is right now). Regardless of how it all pans out, there are some things you can do to help maintain a strong presence in the market.

As combatting climate change has become more and more crucial for our society's future, many of us are doing all we can to help out. But we get it, you're running a business. When you're not putting food on the table for customers, you're putting it on the table for your families, so you have to think about the costs of "doing your part." Luckily, there are a lot of financial reasons to go green, as well as moral. We're going to go over some of the trends and data that show it's a smart decision to make your delivery options as environmentally friendly as possible.

A virtual restaurant is a type of delivery-only restaurant brand that has no physical space aside from its kitchen, which is more often than not that of a parent restaurant. When large restaurants desire to reach consumers in a new market, they'll often create smaller brands that operate out of their existing kitchens, but only exist online.

Virtual restaurants, or delivery only restaurants, have no brick-and-mortar location and only serve food through delivery or takeout orders. Virtual restaurants increase restaurant revenue - while leveraging underutilized kitchen space - by tapping into the massive customer base that food-delivery platforms have built up. Opposed to ghost kitchens, you can run a virtual restaurant out of your existing brick and mortar store!

If you're a restaurateur who has been thinking of capitalizing on the boom in delivery but is weary of how well it will go post-pandemic, you can probably rest easy. Plus, we here at Forward Kitchens aim to make the process of starting up a virtual restaurant as easy and low-risk as possible. With the help of our team, you can use your existing operation, however big or small, to launch a virtual restaurant with multiple brands. This means you'll have even more chances to reach consumers, with even less investment.

If you're in tune with the restaurant industry even slightly, you've most definitely been hearing a lot more about virtual restaurants over the past year. It's not like they didn't exist before that, but the Coronavirus pandemic has slingshotted them into the limelight, forcing restaurateurs...